Soul Electricity! is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label.[1] The album features Stitt using the varitone, an electronic amplification device which altered the saxophone's sound.[2]

Soul Electricity!
Studio album by
Released1968
RecordedSeptember 23, 1968
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length39:14
LabelPrestige
PR-7635
ProducerDon Schlitten
Sonny Stitt chronology
Made for Each Other
(1968)
Soul Electricity!
(1968)
Little Green Apples
(1968)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic     [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide     [4]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating: "The album gets its name because for this session, Stitt plugged his alto and tenor saxophones into a Varitone attachment. What came out, though, was not fusion by any means, but a pretty straight-ahead session that found Sonny his usual competent self. The program is actually on the conservative side, leaning toward standards".[3]

Track listing

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  1. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 5:58
  2. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 3:25
  3. "P.S. I Love You" (Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer) - 5:35
  4. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 5:24
  5. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) - 5:33
  6. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 3:57
  7. "Candy" (Mack David, Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney) - 5:50
  8. "Strike Up the Band" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:30

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Prestige Records Discography accessed January 9, 2013
  2. ^ Myers, M. Sonny Stitt: Varitone Redux, All About Jazz, December 20, 2011
  3. ^ a b Unterberger, R. Allmusic Review, accessed January 9, 2013
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 185. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.